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  • From: <alan AT rebeluk.com>
  • To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Home Directory Continually Refreshing in Konqueror
  • Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:23:56 +0100 (CET)

> On Thursday 30 October 2003 9:34 pm, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:48:03PM +0000, Alan Ross wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 6:36 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> > > Quoting Alan Ross <alan AT rebeluk.com>:
>> > > > The text displays correctly. The only problem is that the window
>> is continually refreshing its contents. Possible related - A
>> quick look in top shows that fam sitting at > 80% cpu usage.
>> > > >
>> > > > Alan
>> > >
>> > > I've heard of some problems with FAM and system
>> resources/goofiness, may want to try disabling that.
>> > >
>> > > -sandalle
>> >
>> > I have dispelled fam and recast kdelibs without fam support.
>> Following this I required to cast all other kde spells to get a
>> working kde again. Thankfully this has solved the problem. The home
>> directory no longer continually refreshes and my system is more
>> responsive.
>> >
>> > I could find no reference to this problem on the web (I only did a
>> quick google search) and am wondering if the problem is with the
>> sourcemage fam setup.
>> >
>> > Alan
>>
>> I remembered reading something about a fam problem some time ago, but
>> didn't bother to research it more deeply as i didn't have problems
>> with fam, now i looked it up.
>> It's not sourcemage related, it's a know problem of the dnotify patch
>> that is used for fam [0] (note: without dnotify it uses polling, which
>> is even worse).
>>
>> Could you (or anyone else that uses kde) try building fam with an
>> additional line 'export LDFLAGS="-lrt -lpthread"' in the BUILD file
>> (as suggested in [1]) and see if that fixes the problem?
>>
>> References:
>> [0]: http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158
>> [1]: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/mail_archive/200301/msg00011.html
>
> I added the line 'export LDFLAGS="-lrt -lpthread"' to the fam build
> file. Cast fam and recast kdelibs, kdebase, kde* with fam support
> enabled. This does indeed appear to have solved the continual
> refreshing problem.
>
> Many thanks to all involved. I will make a bug for this tommorrow unless
> anyone else beats me too it. Must sleep now!
>
> Alan

Done. Bug number 4607.
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4607






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